Ghost Cells

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Links to articles that inspired this piece listed at the end.









Time reaches across

cold decades of Decembers,

whispering of you

in me,

of me

in her,

of me

entwined

between

you and her

within those eight days

of December

containing

ghosts of ghost

cells

there dwells

somewhere

inside Time’s touch,

understanding.

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Dust of a Nation

Right wing demonstrators at Texas State University




winds carried the dusty remains

of a nation across the land

burying bleeding women

in breeding graves

dug by their slave masters

who thought to teach them

of their homespun place

woven in a tapestry

of chains

the remains devoid

of time’s progressive thread

that once contained

something more

than the prison

of being named property